χαρά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< χαίρω), [in LXX for שִׂמְחָה, שָׂשׂוֹן, etc.;]
joy, delight: Lk 1:1415:7, 10, Jo 15:1116:22, 2417:13, Ac 8:8, II Co 1:247:138:2, Ga 5:22, Col 1:11, Phl 2:2, I Jo 1:4, II Jo 12; opp. to κατήφεια, Ja 4:9; to λύπη, Jo 16:20; χ. τῆς πίστεως, Phl 1:25; ἀγαλλιᾶσθαι (χαίρειν, q.v.), χαρᾷ, Jo 3:29, I Pe 1:8; χ. ἔχειν, Phm 7; πληροῦν (-οῦσθαι) χαρᾶς, Ac 13:52, Ro 15:13, II Ti 1:4; ποιεῖν χ. μεγάλην, Ac 15:3; ἀπὸ τῆς χ., Mt 13:44, Lk 24:41, Ac 12:14; ἐν χ., Ro 15:32; μετὰ χαρᾶς, Mt 13:2028:8, Mk 4:16, Lk 8:1310:1724:52, Phl 1:42:29, He 10:3413:17; id. seq.πνεύματος ἁγίου, I Th 1:6; χ. ἐν π. ἁ, Ro 14:17; χ. ἐπί, II Co 7:4; διά, I Th 3:9; ὅτι, Jo 16:21; ἵνα, III Jo 4 By meton., of the cause or occasion of joy: Lk 2:10, II Co 1:15, WH, txt., R, mg., Phl 4:1, I Th 2:19, 20, He 12:2, Ja 1:2; ἡ χ. τ. κυρίου, Mt 25:21, 23.†